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UNT unveils new high tech cooling system NICOLE BALDERAS Senior Staff Writer
A ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday introduced the North Power Plant - the newest addition to the university’s chilled water loop system that is expected to save the university more than $60 million in 20 years, according to a press release. The plant, which is next to the Physics Building, houses three new chill water units as part of a $42 million project that added the units and 5.82 miles of underground piping, which replaced old steel piping that had rotted in the ground. “What drove the project was the rotten pipe,” said Ken Wheat, Schneider Electric construction manager, in an interview Tuesday. “It was leaking water and was in really bad shape, so the university decided to replace it.” The project was a collaboration between UNT Facilities and Schneider Electric and will provide a more energy efficient air-conditioning system for 39 of the campus buildings.
The new piping is high-density polyethylene pipe, which – unlike steel piping – is already insulated. The piping is flexible, which made it easier to install. “Instead of digging ditches to install the new pipe, they were directionally drilled,” Wheat said. With the addition of the three new units, there are five chillers on campus, with two in the Highland Street Parking Garage – known as the South Plant. Computers are able to detect the levels of energy needed to cool each building and in turn, control the speed of the pumps and fan that help create the energy. “They [the chill water units] are talking on computers through an underground fiber optic connection,” Wheat said. “There are five chillers, but they are controlled as though they are one, and they only run as much as they are needed to.” Project manager Daryl Cox said there is still more piping to be installed. “We’re about one-and-a-half years into a two-and-a-half year project,” Cox said.
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Schneider Electric Energy Solutions Senior Vice President James Potach (left) and UNT Assistant Vice President for Facilities Charles Jackson (right) prepare to cut the ribbon with UNT President V. Lane Rawlins (center) during a ceremony and open house celebrating upgrades to UNT’s chilling system Tuesday morning at the UNT North Power Plant. “By modernizing this plant we have greatly increased our energy efficiency,” Rawlins said in a short speech prior to the ribbon cutting.
Boarding prohibited in streets TAMS to add tuition fee J.P. LUGO
HOLLY H ARVEY
Students who use skateboards or longboards around campus may run the risk of getting a citation, unless they can abide by a city ordinance that prohibits boarding on a roadway. Corporal John DeLong of the UNT Police Department said that according to a City of Denton ordinance, students cannot ride boards down the road specifically, as it runs a hazard risk. DeLong also said that though there aren’t any rules against riding on the sidewalk or through campus, students may be ticketed for reckless riding, not giving the right-of-way to pedestrians or participating in other unlawful acts, such as grinding on concrete with the boards. “They can ride on sidewalks, across the street at a crosswalk, but they just can’t be traveling down the street,” DeLong said. “They need to travel in a straight line across the street.” Pre-biology freshman Collin Perry, who often skates to class, said that before getting a warning from a campus officer outside of Kerr Hall, he was unaware of any laws against riding. “I hadn’t heard of any laws
UNT’s Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science will re-implement a yearly program charge of $1,300 starting in fall 2012, TAMS Dean Richard Sinclair said. TAMS previously implemented the program charge from 2003 until 2009, when the Texas Legislature increased allotment for students and TAMS received additional funding. However, the legislature reduced public education funding and cut TAMS special item funding by 25 percent in 2011, resulting in the reinstitution of the program charge, Sinclair said. “I hate having to increase the price. I don’t want to do it,” Sinclair said. “Hopefully this charge will be temporary, depending on the future legislative decisions.” TAMS is a two-year program in which high school students attend college classes and live on campus while also conducting research in mathematics and science. Applications to TAMS have increased 12 percent in the last year, Sinclair said. The program has 376 students enrolled this
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General studies sophomore James Walker takes a ride down Sandy Lake Drive. Walker said that he has had to look for new and safer places to skate, always keeping safety in mind as well as courtesy to the residents living on the street.
“... they just can’t be traveling down the street ...”
—John Delong UNT Police Department
beforehand,” Perry said. “I’ve seen a kid who was hit by a car once while riding on his bike. I don’t see why they’re enforcing skateboard laws while other
things are happening around here [on campus].” Residents and students can be ticketed for skating in a parking lot if it is associated with another act such as criminal mischief. DeLong said that if anyone has a problem with the ordinance, they should make Denton aware of their issue, not only the police department. “If they disagree with something that’s a law or ordinance, I would recommend them go to a City of Denton Council meeting, and talk to the lawmakers and voice their opinion,” DeLong said.
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Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science students study Tuesday, while university rejection letters hang on the wall in the Mac Café of McConnell Hall. TAMS tuition will add a $1,300 program charge in fall 2012. semester. “Kids can graduate early from college through TAMS, and it’s a worthwhile investment,” Sinclair said. “More people than ever are trying to get in the door.” Without the addition of the program charge, TAMS students pay about $7,700 for expenses and room and board fees. Sinclair said other possible options to save money include filling open rooms in McConnell Hall with college students and reducing TAMS services such as academic counselors. “We don’t own the halls; UNT Housing does,” Sinclair said. “Putting college students in with
TAMS students would be an absolute last resort.” Graduating TAMS senior Coralyn Bingman will not be affected by the increase but said the charge is concerning people. “Some of my friends are a bit worried,” Bingman said. “The price increase is happening, so most people are just trying accepting it.” TAMS junior Sally Tran said because of the increase, her family will have to be more careful with money. “I will still be able to attend TAMS, but I’ll have to cut back on spending and on things like vacation,” Tran said.
On-campus graffiti crimes up from last year DAVID L ANDER Intern
The number of graffiti-related crimes per mont h is up this semester compared to last year, according to the UNT Police Department. Last yea r g ra f f it i cr i me rates averaged 1.4 reported ca ses per mont h, but t he average this year, from Jan. 1 to April 15, is about 2.5, said Corporal John DeLong of the UNT Police Department. “It seems there are several individuals that are committ i ng t he cr i me of g ra f f it i
“Some of the patterns of the graffiti are similar in style ...”
— John DeLong UNT Police Department
a round t he UNT campus,” DeLong said. “Some of the patterns of the graffiti are si m i la r i n st y le, but due
to ongoing invest igat ions, t he pa r t icu la rs ca n not be discussed.” DeLong said that 24 out of 26 incidences during the past t wo years occurred on the west side of campus. “Everyone is mad that their property got tagged, but it’s being tagged by people that don’t ow n proper t y,” sa id a local graffiti tagger, who will remain anonymous. “It’s being tagged by people to whom this weird concept of private property here in the United States being valued
above everything else is just alien.” The tagger said they refuse to tag buildings t hat have “some kind of merit or value to society,” instead viewing the tagging of bleak walls or parking garages as “more of a victimless crime.” To prevent vandalism and ot her cr i mes on ca mpus, DeL ong sa id U N T pol ice of f icers pat rol ca mpus “24/7/365.”
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A UNT police cruiser passes a piece of graffiti on a wall across from the Sullivant Public Safety Center. The number of graffiti-related crimes is up this semester as opposed to last year, according to the UNT Police Department.
Inside Jewish graphic novel class to debut in fall Arts and Life | Page 2
Softball team tries to pick up win against Sooners Sports | Page 3
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Old school gamers revive titles from the past JORDAN FOSTER Intern
Video games have come a long way from the penny arcades and two-dimensional space invaders of the 1970s – in 2011, the industry was valued at more than $65 billion, according to gaming firm DFC Intelligence. Joysticks and plastic buttons almost seem quaint now that companies such as Microsoft have developed devices as advanced as the Kinect, which makes it possible for both casual and dedicated fans to play games with a mere flick of the wrist or a change in the inflection of their voice. In light of climbing sales and new technological feats, some may think that games of the past are long forgotten. Employees at the Game X Change on University Lane say that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Game X Change – one of 40 stores scattered throughout Arkansas and Texas – is keeping the spirit of Nintendo and “Ms. Pac Man” alive by supplying a growing community of vintage gamers. Radio, television and film senior Peter Sowards has been working part time at the Denton shop for about a year. He has seen firsthand the vintage market taking off and takes pride in the store’s biggest attraction. “The resale of Nintendo and Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and all Sony consoles probably encompasses 60 percent
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BCIS senior Luke Robinson picks through Nintendo 64 cartridges at Game X Change. He and his friend have just recently bought a Nintendo 64 console to play games from their childhood. of our business,” Sowards said. “Nintendo 64 is a great example; we cannot keep a Nintendo 64 in our store. Everybody loves N64.” As stores such as Hastings and GameStop moved away from the vintage market, Sowards said
Game X Change found its niche. Although it’s one of the smaller game stores in the Denton area, casual customers and collectors alike travel from towns and cities as far away as Sherman to flick through the shelves of old school Nintendo, Sega and Atari
games. The store offers customers a place to buy games from their childhood and to sell titles for cash or in-store credit. Vintage gaming may be the store’s strong suit, but it also deals in new games and platforms as
well as used DVDs. Sowards said the majority of the store’s customers are regulars. Denton resident Damian Z. Hicks has been going to Game X Change with his 11-year-old son Mecca since the store opened. He said he enjoys teaching his
son the value of a dollar by taking him to the store and finds it to be ideal place for the lesson. “It’s almost like a mom-andpop store,” Hicks said. “Instead of a Best Buy or GameStop, it’s just a better environment for me. There are lessons that places like this can teach kids about managing money and enjoying video games.” Business computer information systems senior Luke Robinson recently discovered the store and said he was excited to buy games for his Nintendo 64. “We recently got a 64, and it’s been kind of cool to go back and revisit those old games,” Robinson said. “For some reason it’s just fun.” At the Game X Change in Denton, vintage game collectors have found a place to call home, where they can buy, sell and trade their old treasures. Sowards is happy to see the vintage community picking up steam and is happy to work at a store that accommodates that particular market. “‘Mario’ never dies. Neither does ‘Zelda,’” Sowards said. “Everyone comes in here looking for ‘Mario’ or ‘Zelda’ because they played them when they were a kid. They really want to relive that nostalgic time from their childhood, and that’s what we are here for.”
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Jewish Studies lecturer Marshal Needleman Armintor holds “Jamilti and Other Stories”by Rutu Modan in his office Tuesday.“It’s mind boggling,”Armintor said of one of many graphic novels that “raises interesting questions” about Jewish history. novel follows life on a kibbutz – an Israeli agricultural community – in the 1920s. History professor Richard
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Golden, director of UNT’s Jew i sh St ud ies P rog ra m, believes “The Jewish Graphic Novel” course is a good addition to the curriculum because it coincides with the program’s goal of disseminating information about Judaism and Israel. “This course is about an
important genre of Jew ish literature and fits into the Je w i s h St ud ie s P r og r a m nicely,” Golden said. Golden encouraged students to take a course in the Jewish Studies Program to help benefit their academic career. “I think that in order to be considered educated, a person needs to k now somet hing about the contributions of Jews and Judaism to Western civilization,” he said. Eng l ish sen ior A nd rew McGinnis, who has taken two courses with Armintor, said he was enthusiastic to get a different perspective on the graphic novel. “A rmintor’s great, and I don’t know much about the graphic novel so I thought it would be a good starting point,” McGinnis said. McGinnis expects that by the end of the semester, he will have reached a better understanding of what, to him, is a completely new subject. “I’ll know the basic techniques of the graphic novel, the themes, the motifs and the techniques used in a relatively new art form,” he said. A r m i ntor hopes t hat students will learn through the course to grasp the ability of comics to address subjects in any way, treating literary history as a living thing. “It’s always a learning experience, and I’m always really impressed by our students’ creative responses to intellectual challenges,” Armintor said.
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Mean Green falls one spot in rainy second round Women’s Golf R Y NE G ANNOE Intern
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Sophomore pitcher Lauren Poole motivates the team during UNT’s 6-0 loss to the Texas State Bobcats on April 11 at Lovelace Field. The Mean Green will try to redeem a previous loss against the No. 7 Oklahoma University Sooners at 6 p.m. today.
UNT’s high-powered offense tries to solve OU pitching Softball BRETT MEDEIROS Senior Staff Writer
After falling to the then-No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners in February, the Mean Green softball team (19-21-1) will take another shot at the No. 7 Sooners (35-6) today in Norman, Okla. Every year since the 2004 season, UNT has played at least two games against the Sooners. In this season’s first meeting, Oklahoma took a 4-1 road win. With the loss, the Mean Green fell to 0-20 all-time against OU. In those games, Oklahoma has outscored UNT 141-31. “Against a team like this, we will have to stay focused all the way through the game,� head coach T.J. Hubbard said. “Every out, play and situation is important.� Led by All-American junior pitcher Keilani Ricketts, the
OU pitchers are No. 1 in the nation with a .92 earned run average. Ricketts is in the top 10 of every national statistical category for a starting pitcher. “We have to attack her [Ricketts] early,� sophomore pitcher Ashley Kirk said. “She’ll only give us a few good pitches to hit. There is a reason she’s at the point she is now. She’s good.� In the teams’ first matchup of the season, Ricketts came within one out of pitching a perfect game before sophomore infielder Brooke Foster drew a walk with two outs in the seventh inning. While Oklahoma’s pitching appears in every national category, UNT still has something to boast about. The Mean Green is No. 37 in the nation with .90 home runs per game. Spots two through seven in the Mean Green’s batting order
have produced 35 of the team’s 37 home runs this season. Seniors infielder Maddelyn Fraley (10) and Caitlin Grimes (9) rank third and fourth, respectively, on the conference’s home run list. “Whenever we play Big 12 teams we always seem to step up to the occasion and give them a tough fight,� senior outfielder Megan Rupp said. “We’ll do just fine if we go out there and play our brand of softball, and have some fun while we’re out there as well.� This game against Oklahoma signals the beginning of the final stretch of the season for the Mean Green. The team will play two more conference series and three more games against nonconference opponents, then it will start the Sun Belt Conference Tournament if it qualifies in May. The first pitch is at 6 p.m.
The Mean Green women’s golf team slipped one spot to fou r t h place a f ter t he second round of the Sun Belt Conference Championship, s h o ot i n g a 2 0 - o v e r p a r 308. UNT is just one stroke behind third place Florida International, but 23 strokes behind first place Denver. Tu e s d a y ’s d i f f i c u l t i e s sta r ted w it h bad weat her in Muscle Shoals, Ala., head coach Jeff Mitchell said. “ To d a y w a s a h u g e struggle,� Mitchell said via text message. “It poured rain and was pretty cold on top of that. For the most part, I was proud of the effort from the team.�
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Seniors Jacey Chun, Kelsey Kipp and Addison Long, all sit in the top 20. Chun, the highest-ranked UNT golfer in the field, jumped up four spots from the first round to a No. 5 tie. “Jacey [Chun] had some birdies today, and that is a good sig n,� Mitchel l sa id. “Kelsey [K ipp] played well most of the day. We just need to have all five play well in the
final round.� Fresh ma n McKen zie Ralston shot 16-over par in the second round. She dropped 30 spots from No. 6 to No. 36. Sophomore Chaslyn Chrismer shaved three strokes off of her first round score to finish the day tied at No. 43. The final round of the tournament tees off today at 8 a.m. Scores are updated live on golfstat.com.
Mean Green Trivia Athletic Director Rick Villarreal introduced UNT’s seventh women’s basketball head coach Monday, announcing the addition of Mike Petersen at a press conference. The Mean Green will get a coach with plenty of experience, as Petersen has led four teams in his 19 years of coaching. Where has Petersen coached before coming to UNT? Hint: From 1996-1999, Petersen coached a team from North Texas. Think you got the answer? Tweet your guesses to the North Texas Daily Sports Twitter, @NTDailySports! Those who answer correctly will be mentioned in Thursday’s paper.
UNT hosts SMU in lone home match of offseason Volleyball
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JOSH F RIEMEL Staff Writer
For the first and only time t his of fseason, t he Mea n Green volleyball team will play at home, as it hosts SMU at the Mean Green Volleyball Complex tonight. Unlike the previous two tournaments UNT has played in, the match against SMU will be more like a match in the fall. The team will play one team to best three out of five games, rather than four different teams in a tournament-style setting. The match will have no bearing on UNT’s record in the fall. The scrimmage is a time for head coach Ken Murczek to experiment with different lineups and for the team to gain playing experience, Murczek said. UNT and SMU met at the UT-Arlington tournament last weekend en route to the Mean Green’s best performance of the offseason. UNT won both sets. Murczek said he thinks SMU will set its game plan around stopping 6-foot-3inch middle blocker junior Courtney Windham, who had several blocks while hitting at an efficient rate against SMU last weekend. “They’re definitely going to key on her because she was a one-woman wrecking machine against them,� he said. The team, which is trying to get the band in the Mean Green Volleyball Complex for the game, is looking forward to its only opportunit y to play a home match in front of fans that made UNT volleyba l l t he hig hest-attended
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Sophomore Hannah Forst returns the ball while head coach Ken Murczek watches during volleyball practice Tuesday at the Mean Green Village. The Mean Green will face Southern Methodist University at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the village. volleyball school in the Sun Belt Conference for two years straight, Murczek said. However, out of the four allowed competition dates in the offseason, Murczek only wanted one home match so his young team could experience traveling and playing teams on the road. “You’re going to play half of your matches on the road, so it’s good to go out into different environments to learn how to
deal,� he said. Leading up to the match, Murczek and assistant coach Sarah Rumely have used their own playing experiences in college to gauge how to push the team in practice. “We’ll get a good test here against SMU because they’re a pretty good, talented team that plays in a good conference,� Murczek said. The match starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
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NT Daily Edboard: Nods and Shakes Nod: Rick Villarreal It’s been a dramatic year for UNT basketball. In both men’s and women’s ball, it’s as though the organizations took a step forward, and the universe has tried to send us two steps backward. The women’s basketball team jumped from an atrocious 5-25 record in the 2010-2011 season to an improved 15-16 record in the 2011-12 season, good for the second-best turnaround in school history. This improvement was a product of a fantastic personnel decision on behalf of UNT Athletic Director Rick Villarreal in hiring head coach Karen Aston.
Aston brought the team out of the slums of the Sun Belt and made UNT a real contender; however, this offseason she took the head coaching job at University of Texas at Austin. Villarreal quickly found an excellent replacement for Aston in former Wake Forest head coach Mike Petersen. Leaving the Demon Deacons as their all-time winningest coach, Petersen won 35 games for Wake over his last two seasons as their coach. He’s coached for 19 years and led Wake Forest to 20 wins last season. If Villarreal finds someone as qualified as Petersen for men’s ball, then both sides of the program will surely be in good hands.
Shake: U.S. Secret Service Last week’s Colombia trip seemed to bring out the party in America’s governmental representatives. For Hillary Clinton, that meant drinking a beer straight from a bottle. For 11 members of the Secret Service, it meant bringing 21 prostitutes back to their rooms for themselves and other military personnel. W hen police arrived at the Cartagena Hotel and began asking questions, the agents, highly trained in deception, couldn’t put together a story that made sense. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told New York Representative
Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, that the 11 agents were all telling different stories to the authorities. Along with the moral flaws demonstrated by these agents’ decisions comes an almost comical incompetence. Although President Obama wasn’t in the country at the time of the debacle, nefarious characters still could have wrangled important information about his security from these drunken buffoons. For the complete absence of professionalism and general lack of situational awareness, the Secret Service receives a shake from the Edboard.
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Graffiti should be Gingrich’s seen as an art, campaign has come not vandalism to inevitable end Long ago – 30,000 B.C.E. to be exact – people made markings on cave walls, depicting great hunts and travels. Those handprints and rough figures can still be seen today. They stood the test of time to give us a better idea of who those people were. It was their voice, their way of saying, “I exist,” it was graffiti. You either love it or hate it, it’s either art or junk. Should graffiti be condoned? I say yes. There are 7,00,000,000 people on this planet and counting. Cities are crowded, and people are merely numbers. Graffiti is a way for No. 6,840,501,000 to say, “I exist, and this is what I have to say.” Regardless of laws, graffiti – or “street art” – is a trove of information and self-expression. It can have a message or serve to decorate or beautify something ugly or plain. Self-expression and art should belong to the world regardless of medium, not just to those who can afford $1,500 for space on a billboard. If advertisers can use the world to get their messages out, it should be our canvas as well. The genera l public ca lls it vandalism. In some instances, yes it is. People’s homes and places of worship and burial should remain sacred and shouldn’t be touched. In the city of Dallas, it is considered a class B misdemeanor if someone is caught writing graffiti on a surface without the owner’s permission. Yet, if it’s “pretty,” it usually remains, especially if it is in a neighborhood no one really cares about. Banksy, a world-famous street artist, has risen to rock-star fame. His work is considered advantageous for tourism in London and is actually protected.
Shepard Fairey, the creator and owner of Obey Giant clothing, most famous for his stenciled blue and red image of President Obama, began his career as a street artist. He began posting his images all over the country “illegally,” on the sides of buildings and billboards. Fairey’s street campaign was so successful that he received a letter from Obama himself, thanking him for his contribution to his campaign. Deep Ellum prides itself on its street art, yet if anyone adds to it, they are vandalizing. There should be rules implemented to avert street artists from damaging sacred places and personal homes, but this double standard exemplifies why graffiti laws are ridiculous. Graffiti is one of the oldest forms of self-expression. Regardless of its message, it should remain as one of the public forms of expression and art. Everyone should have the right to express who they are, regardless of the surface.
Jordan Foster is a journalism senior. He can be reached at jlfoster4466@ yahoo.com.
For those not following the farcical adventure that is the race for the Republican nomination, there’s one fewer name to half-heartedly follow. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is flat broke. The check for the $500 filing fee to get on the ballot in Utah bounced last week leaving some – me – wondering what was going through his head. Fellow students, if you had $500 left in your election coffers, wouldn’t it be better spent somewhere that isn’t already heavily biased towards Mitt Romney? Let’s face it, the only person who could have beat Romney in Utah would have been Jon Huntsman, and he dropped out 3 months ago. Real talk, Newt never had the opportunity to win. His only claims to fame were welfare reform and being the first Republican speaker since the 1960s. Hell, the guy shut down the government because Clinton made him sit at the back of the plane on a trip back from Israel in 1995. You won’t hear that from his supporters. I’m still not sure how this man even became associated with the Christian Right. He’s been married twice, has had multiple affairs, and he divorced his first wife while she had cancer. According to L . H. Ca r ter, Gingrich’s campaign treasurer, Gingrich said of his first wife, “She’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer.” How do you believe someone to be moral and upright when he wants a divorce because his wife got old? Beyond his personal matters, his policies are absurd, and they’ve
only gotten worse throughout the campaign. He’s anti-judicial activism, except when the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare. He wants a balanced budget but continues to support big business subsidies. He wants to give the death penalty to drug smugglers, even after coming out in support of medical marijuana in 1982. The man believes that flex-fuel (E85) mandates in new vehicles are a matter of national security. How does this much c r a z y ge t t a k en s er iou s l y ? It’s all about looking at a candidate for what he really is. Looking at New t’s past and comparing it to what he’s saying now, I still ca n’t understa nd why people will vote for him. Newt, bro, you’re smart. You were a professor, and you have a doctorate in history; do you actually believe the words that you’re saying?
Nicholas LaGrassa is an emergency administration and planning senior. He can be reached at NicholasLaGrassa@ my.unt.edu.
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